Last month Hoopla Digital expanded their catalog of ebooks and audiobooks that are available for free through public libraries by signing a deal with Open Road Integrated Media. Now Hoopla has announced a new agreement with HarperCollins Publishers to add their full backlist of audiobooks to Hoolpa’s catalog. Among the new titles includes bestsellers like […]
New Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7-inch Tablet Released for $149
Samsung has just released a new 7-inch Android tablet called the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 7. It’s a new 2016 version of their A series tablets. The Tab A 7 is basically a newer version of the Galaxy Tab 4 that I reviewed back in 2014. The Galaxy Tab A has a slightly faster processor, […]
Night Shift Blue Light Filter Now Available on iOS 9.3
Apple has released a new update for iOS, version 9.3, that adds a number of new features to iPads and iPhones, including a new blue light filter called Night Shift. Night Shift can be setup to automatically adjust your iPad or iPhone’s color temperate on the display so that it filters out blue light as […]
10 Free Kindle Books and Kindle Deals – March 21st
Here’s another roundup of 10 free highly-rated Kindle ebooks for Monday to get your week off to a good start. Also don’t forget about the free audiobook copy of Black Beauty that Amazon is giving away this month. Please note that the free Kindle ebooks listed below are free as of March 21st, 2016. Most […]
List of all Fire Tablets and How to Tell Them Apart
A few months ago I posted an article about a List of all Kindles and How to Tell them Apart that Amazon has on their website. I recently noticed that Amazon has a similar page up for Fire tablets called Which Fire Tablet do I have? The page lists every single Fire tablet that Amazon […]
Is the Quality of eBook Readers Declining?
A reader sent in an email over the weekend commenting about how they were at a retail store and noticed some ereaders on display, and they thought the build quality of current devices is vastly inferior to what was available a few years ago. In some ways I have to agree with that sentiment. The […]
Fire Tablets Can Now Store Audiobooks on SD Card
Amazon has issued another software update—for what seems like the twentieth time this year—that adds support for downloading audiobooks to the microSD card on 5th generation Fire tablets. The new software update, version 5.1.2, is rolling out to 4th generation Fire tablets as well, even though they lack a microSD card slot (Amazon seems to […]
Deals on Kindle Voyage for $152, Kindle Touch $56, Fire $29
Amazon is currently running some sales on Kindle ereaders and Fire tablets but they aren’t the typical kind of deals that they usually run. This time around Amazon is offering deals on certified refurbished and pre-owned Kindle ereaders and Fire tablets. In fact the Kindle Voyage is priced as low as it’s ever been at […]